Process for baking pies



April 26 1927. 1,626,316

F. M. WAKEMAN PROCESS FOR BAKING 1 1155 Filed Nov. 12, 1924 v flnvenzor a,

Patented Apr. 26, 1927.

FRANK MERWIN WAKEMAN, 0F LISBON FALLS, MAINE.

PROCESS FOR BAKING- PIES.

Application filed November 12, 1924. Serial No. 749,575.

The object of my invention is to provide a sanitary, convenient and effective means whereby the juice of pies may be prevented from running out into the oven during the process of baking, and destined to supercede and improve upon the inconvenient and primitive method sometimes employed by housewives, of wrapping a strip of muslin around the pipe. The improvements lie in its convenience, method of securing it around the pie by means of an adhesive end, and the application thereto of the property of paper to shrink in process of drying.

In the annexed drawings Fig. 1, 1 represents a portion of the pie sealing tape unwound from the roll 2, designed to be detached therefrom at the perforations 3 and showing its adhesive end 4. In Fig. 2 the strip of tape 1 is shown placed in a cup of water, preparatory to the application of said strip to the pie: the ad- 1 hesive end 4 is folded over the edge of the cup to prevent the gum soaking off. In Fig. 3 the moistened strip of tape 2 is shown in the process of being applied to the unbaked pie; the adhesive end t is intended to be lapped over and secured to the wet portion'5.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts in the various views.

This pie sealing tape ismade of paper,

out into strips of sufficient width (I prefer inch to 1 inch) and of any desired length, and for convenience wound into rolls 2, Fig. 1. Said strip is perforated at intervals as at 3, forming detachable sections 1 of a length sufficient to encircle a pie plate, and allowing a little for overlapping. Said sections are gummed at one end 4:.

In use, a section of the tape is moistened, as shown in Fig. 2, then placed in position around the pie, as shown in Fig. 3, the adhesive end 4 of the strip 1 lapped over and attached to the opposite end, thereby encircling the pie with a continuous band 0t paper; said band of paper, in process of drying, shrinks and draws snugly around the put up in some other 1. The process of forming a juice retaining dam around the edge of a pie orthe like, which consists in passing a strip of paper, which has been previously wvett-ed and thereby elongated, tightly around the pie in contact with the edge thereof, with a portion of the paper upstanding above the pie and with its ends overlapping, and at taching said ends together to hold said strip upstanding around said pie during the subsequent baking of the pie so that the shrinkage'of the strip, consequent upon its drying, will effect its tight'engagement with the edge of the pie and make it leak-proof. I

2. The process of forming a juice retaining dam around the edge of a pie or the like which consists in preliminarily elongating a strip of paper by wetting it except for one end portion which is gummed; passing said elongated strip tightly around the pie in contact with the edge thereof, with the strip upstanding and its ends overlapping; and fastening said ends together by adhesion of the gummed end to the wetted end, thereby to hold the strip upstanding around the pie during subsequent baking so that the shrinkage of the strip consequent upon drying will effect its tight engagement with the edge of the pie and make it leakproof. I

FRANK MERIVIN VVAKEMAN. 

